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Tue, 9 Apr 2024
1015 - You love to read. Could you narrate?

Tue, 2 Apr 2024
1014 - Memory, Aging, and the Lingering 'Anyways'

Tue, 26 Mar 2024
1013 - A nuclear win at the Oscars. CamelCase. One clo.

Tue, 19 Mar 2024
1012 - From grunts to grammar. The Irish 'after doing.' The winning NGD poem!

Tue, 12 Mar 2024
1011 - Where did our language start?

Tue, 5 Mar 2024
1010 - 'Addictive' or 'addicting'? Types of nouns. Folley

Tue, 27 Feb 2024
1009 - Tracing the origins of Miami's new English. Why it's not a 'gumballs' machine. Embassy Sweets.

Tue, 20 Feb 2024
1008 - Taylor Swift Doesn't Need Your Grammatical Approval. In Love. Foil Lump Surprise.

Tue, 13 Feb 2024
1007 - 'A' versus 'an.' 'Larruping' rides again. Euonyms. Flavoring.

Tue, 6 Feb 2024
1006 - From 'hwhat' to 'what': Tracing a letter's disappearing act. Barkhouse.

Tue, 30 Jan 2024
1005 - The listener show! (canceled, think, lettuce, funnily, episode numbers, at about, mangos, musgos)

Tue, 23 Jan 2024
1004 - Technology changes how we write. Who was the first Goody Two Shoes?

Tue, 16 Jan 2024
1003 - More than fluff: Understanding 'needless' words. Larruping. Chicken surprise.

Tue, 9 Jan 2024
1002 - The psychology (and language) of time. Commas are like people on the subway. Fox chores.

Tue, 2 Jan 2024
1001 - A rizzy word-of-the-year chat (with Jess Zafarris)

Tue, 26 Dec 2023
1000 - Why English has silent letters. Dayjamas.

Tue, 26 Dec 2023
999 - The special sauce of human language. Gotten. NATO alphabet. A1 sauce.

Tue, 19 Dec 2023
998 - What's the difference between Hispanic, Chicano, Latino, Latinx, and Latine? Can something 'grow' smaller? Musko.

Tue, 12 Dec 2023
997 - When does a house become a mansion? Giving someone house.

Tue, 5 Dec 2023
996 - From metal type to metaphor: printing terms that extended their reach. The positive 'anymore.' Gigglemare.

Tue, 28 Nov 2023
995 - Why is Black Friday black? The NATO alphabet. Byeloveyou.

Tue, 21 Nov 2023
994 - The science of the plot twist. Irregardless. Spug.

Tue, 14 Nov 2023
993 - Omnishambles! Military slang across the pond (interview with Ben Yagoda)

Tue, 7 Nov 2023
992 - Cliches. Organic. Bully pulpit. Fimfy.

Tue, 31 Oct 2023
991 - The dark histories behind your favorite scary words, with Jess Zafarris

Tue, 24 Oct 2023
990 - Namesake. Commentate. Sprigly

Tue, 17 Oct 2023
989 - How to write great topic sentences. Fanilects. Throwawayable.

Tue, 10 Oct 2023
988 - When 'nice' was bad and 'bully' was good. Is 'preorder' redundant? High-intensity transformer.

Tue, 3 Oct 2023
987 - Think faster and talk smarter. Tips from Matt Abrahams that will make you a better writer and speaker

Tue, 26 Sep 2023
986 - Did Disney nail the pronunciation of 'Caribbean'? How to write equations. Chuther.

Tue, 19 Sep 2023
985 - Asking experts about language (interview with Steve Kleinedler, former executive editor of the American Heritage Dictionary Usage Panel)

Tue, 12 Sep 2023
984 - When you shouldn't 'write tight.' 'Behead' versus 'decapitate.' YesHony.

Tue, 5 Sep 2023
983 - Say hwat?! 'Anxious' versus 'eager.' Pink stein.

Tue, 29 Aug 2023
982 - The wonders of the 'a-' prefix in English. 'Personal' versus 'personnel.'

Tue, 22 Aug 2023
981 - Hilarious typos (and how to avoid them). Why do we 'take' a walk?

Tue, 15 Aug 2023
980 - Have you ridden an acoustic bike lately? Write it tight.

Tue, 8 Aug 2023
979 - Did you know that on US Army bases, soldiers get a tattoo every day? Keep writing.

Tue, 1 Aug 2023
978 - People have ~feelings~ about the exclamation point (Florence Hazrat interview)

Tue, 25 Jul 2023
977 - 15 years of podcasting with Money Girl and Nutrition Diva

Fri, 21 Jul 2023
976 - 'Less' versus 'fewer.' Fun names for fingers. Scunscreen.

Tue, 18 Jul 2023
975 - 'Inspirational' or 'aspirational'? The surprising dangers of ChatGPT. Spaghetto.

Tue, 11 Jul 2023
974 - Phrasal verb mysteries and minced oath origins. Night water.

Tue, 4 Jul 2023
973 - Unlocking the mystery of 'ever words' and Latin abbreviations. Juna.

Tue, 27 Jun 2023
972 - Why words can suddenly look unrecognizable. Learn to love the full stop. Marley.

Tue, 20 Jun 2023
971 - Imagine life as a fiction editor (interview with Amy Schneider, author of the Chicago Guide to Copy Editing Fiction)

Tue, 13 Jun 2023
970 - Darth Vader and the word 'father.' Comparatives and superlatives. Pritinear.

Tue, 6 Jun 2023
969 - TV changes how you use language. When to use (and not use) 'more' and 'most'

Tue, 30 May 2023

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